performances

LA VIE EN BRONZE (2016-2017)

“LA VIE EN BRONZE” is an allegory about the madness of war.

Isidor and Loosy, a couple in their 50’s, are two war refugees. Since 25 years, they wander around from country to country, from war to war, carrying their home in their backs and pass their days disputing over the name of the turtle and the snail.
The unreasonable, inutile, monstrous “business of war” depicted through two grotesque characters plunged in madness – an enlightened madness however, that unmasks the world that surrounds them. Beyond the simple logic of true or false, we discover a world devastated by the “natural instinct” of humans to make war.

Freely adapted from the tale “O Elephant” of the Brazilian author Bartolomeu Campos de Quieros, Elefantinho is a theatre performance suitable both for adults and children. Through a playful and poetic balance of scenic languages such as shadow theatre, dance and movement research, singing, live music and storytelling both in English and Italian language, Elefantiho deals with the themes of self-confidence and the overcoming of the obstacles, that often are the result of our own fears.

Fears like those of Margherita, a young girl who doent sleep at night, after losing her friend Elefantinho, a small elephant whom she met one night in a dream and suddenly he decided to reach his size, forcing even Margherita to downsize her dream, not large enough to hold a real elephant.

The story is narrated by two clumsy pirates, Adam and Midi, also creatures of Margheritas dream, who shall help her to accept her fears and through a series of adventures, they will finally succeed to make her believe in dreams again and recognise their necessity in the understanding of reality.

Ella, a young wannabe writer, meets the famous novelist Manu Singer, author of a single book of success, “Forest under the sea”. Trying to resolve her past that involve the author, his book and the suicide of her father, Ella reveals gradually her real intentions. The play pays homage, through a game of projection, magic realism and the aesthetics of film noir, to the French actor Patrick Dewaere.

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I would like to tell you about actors. Legends like Patrick Dewaere. And actors like me, who are not legends, and probably never will be. We are beings with enormous imagination. We love stories. It is difficult for us to plunge into the reality. Reality suffocates us.
On one side a cult actor of the 70s, whose life came to a brutal end at the age of 35, for then became a legend.
On the other side, a woman alone in her room. She remembers, dreams and recounts, while she recites lines from Patrick Dewaeres films. A stranger looking for the right words; a lonely person repeating old love stories again and again; an actress rehearsing.
The two stories intertwine, until they become one.
It is a piece about fantasy and reality, regret and hope, the play of the theater and the passion of the stories.
A reflection on legends and their future.

A puzzle of three ordinary tales that take place next to us every day: a stranger confronted with xenophobia and suffering from nostalgia, an abandoned lover unable to reconcile his fantasies with reality, a woman in front of a train, hesitating to take a small decision that may, however, change her life.
The three characters are waiting for the same train, yet they never get to know each other. The performance uses the frame of the train station in order to unfold thepersonal universe of the protagonists. Their stories swing between realism and surrealism, and depict their memories, fantasies, fears and longings.
The performance is a physical theatre composition using the element of a chorus, principles of grotesque and live accordion music.
Dramaturgy: Christina Kyriazidi / Direction: Christina Kyriazidi, Leonel Henckes
Ensemble: Stranger: Leonel Henckes / Lover: Lars Brunken / Girl with accordion: Christina Kyriazidi / Chorus: Alejandro Niklison, Ambra Elefante, Igor Studart, Ismael Martinez, Lara Meroni, Yekaterina Bezdetnaya
Presentations: Hoftheater Kreuzberg, ACUD Theater (Berlin, February 2014)
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O R I G I N S (2012 – 2013)
Origins relates the story of 7 different women connected with the origins of the artist.
In the seven fragments of the performance, the actress, through the dramatization of traditional myths, personal stories, old songs and hidden memories, passes from different characters: a writer, a bride, a traveler, a homeless, a mother, a woman in love and a mourner.

A mother wishes for her son to become a great musician.
An old man returns to the house where he was born after 40 years in exile.
A girl plants a tree the day the Belgrade bombing ends.
A woman doesn’t prevent her lover from crossing illegally the Berlin wall.
Small pieces of different stories interweaved together and narrated through the poetic view of an unusual observer.
The performance uses the language of physical theatre and music and moves inside the universe of the “oniric theatre”. The creation was based on poetry produced in historical moments of the last century and the dramaturgy progresses through physical images and sounds/melodies of a violoncello which is placed in the center of action.
Dramaturgy: Christina Kyriazidi / Direction: Christina Kyriazidi
Ensemble: Christina Kyriazidi, Ian Belinchon
Music: Ian Belinchon
Presentations: TheaterSpiel Raum (Berlin, May 2012)
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Das Lied des Seemanns (2011)

The performance works as a live image that moves as the turning of the pages of a photo album or a tale of a beloved exile-a children’s game, an innocent lie, a short travel- the lighted darkness of an old memory- transfer- transition- however i smell my suitcase life- I shall never escape- my Ithaki within..
Direction: Christina Kyriazidi
Ensemble: Melanie Doyon, Christina Kyriazidi
Presentations: KNOTS theatre festival (Berlin)